By midnight, with the Notre Dame fire’s intensity finally fading, officials at the scene said the cathedral structure, including the two towers on the main facade, had been saved.
In the latticed shadows of the medieval masterpiece that was Notre Dame de Paris, centuries of history unspooled: two calamitous world wars, bubonic plague, revolution, the sprawling, messy intricacies of daily life. Its mighty bells clanged at momentous junctures — when Paris was liberated from the Nazis in 1944, in tribute to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Among the sea of dismayed faces watching the flames, TV cameras found Patrick Chauvet, the rector of Notre Dame. “There were fears for the three famed “rose” stained-glass windows and treasures inside the cathedral, though many had been removed as the building was undergoing renovations. Firefighters rushed to save other works of art from inside the building.
French media quoted the Paris fire brigade saying the Notre Dame Cathedral fire is “potentially linked” to the renovation work. The fire is believed to have started in the ribbed roof area, some of whose heavy timbers dated to the cathedral’s early centuries. The Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into “involuntary destruction by fire,” suggesting officials did not think it was a criminal act.
“This cathedral we will rebuild, all together,” he vowed. “We will rebuild Notre Dame because that’s what the French expect; that’s what our history deserves.”
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